[bugs #8599] updatedb / locate is unusable over NFS

[Bruno Haible]

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URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=8599>
Project: findutils
Submitted by: Bruno Haible
On: Fri 04/16/04 at 20:16

Category:  locate
Severity:  5 - Average
Item Group:  None
Resolution:  None
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Status:  Open
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Summary:  updatedb / locate is unusable over NFS

Original Submission:  The updatedb / locate approach is unusable in practice on
systems with large (> 1 GB) NFS mounted volumes, simply
because of the limited speed of 'find' over NFS.

Here is a suggestion for making it work in this situation as well:
Declare that it must be the server's responsibility to maintain
the locatedb at a fixed location under the mountpoint, for
example at  {mountpoint}/.locatedb.
1) Define precisely this location, {mountpoint}/.locatedb or so.
2) Change the 'locate' program so that it looks not only in the
global /etc/locatedb, but also iterates over each NFS-mounted
filesystem and looks there as well.
3) Provide an updatedb-exports script, intended to be run on
the server, that iterates over all NFS-exported volumes
(showmount -e) and updates the .locatedb there.
4) Explain all of it in the documentation.



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